There Is No Other: a novella of opia and exulansis

Already Babylon is the greatest of all cities, filled with terraced gardens with flora seen no where else in the world, waterfalls that flow through buildings and out windows, ziggurats gilded in silver and gemstone, temples so beautiful they outshine any artwork or sculpture placed within, and a thousand other astonishments, but the people in the markets talk like this new work may be a wonder that makes all others look like ash and dust. Why I should be chosen for such a grand and illustr...